Susanna Gold exhibits several White series canvas paintings and large watercolors from the 1970s-1990s by John Dowell (African American, b. 1941) alongside recent work by Antonio Puri (Indian, b. 1966) and Agathe Bouton (French, b. 1969). Dowell’s White series, developed from personal conversations with celebrated choreographer Merce Cunningham, deals with movement and gesture, with minimal imagery and highly textured brushwork appearing as “whispers” or fleeting traces of the body’s movement through space. Antonio Puri and Agathe Bouton, both expatriate artists from a generation following Dowell’s, create work that complements Dowell’s earlier White series. Where Dowell sparingly reveals moments of color on a textured white field otherwise devoid of color, Puri and Bouton accentuate vivid color -- specifically, hues of red -- in their similarly minimal compositions.

Puri’s 2020 Tantra series is exhibited as an installation of twenty 12” x 12” canvases with sculptural surfaces built up with small, vivid red beads, each featuring a central, circular mandala. While each of Puri’s canvas is a discrete unit and can be collected separately, they generate a powerful visual impact when occupying an entire wall as a grid. Bouton’s 2023-24 Habitat & Urban Matter series of works on paper similarly focuses on hues of red as the primary visual language, their minimal, block-like forms evoking the modernist architecture of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe. Together, Bouton’s stable forms play off of the movement of Dowell’s gestural imagery, while Puri’s work is both static in its repeated compositions and activated by its shimmering, textured surfaces. Together these artists demonstrate an intergenerational relationship that invites a discussion of motion vs. stasis, minimalism vs. repetition, and past vs. present.